A packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan was targeted by two suicide bombers on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding up to 45, said a report.
The gunmen wearing explosives-filled vests stormed the church in

The head of Iraq's largest church said that Islamic State militants who drove Christians out of Mosul were worse than Mongol leader Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu who ransacked medieval Baghdad.
Chaldean Catholic Patriar

Allegations that an illegal church is being built in Bahrain are being investigated by the government.
The Central Municipal Council last Wednesday halted work on the project in Buhair, said a report in the Gul

Work on a residential building in Buhair has been halted because councillors suspect it could be turned into a church.
The Central Municipal Council has been flooded with complaints from residents who do not wa

Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole a reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday.
Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote

Christian churches and expatriate clubs in an area of Manama could face closure following a string of complaints from neighbours.
The Manama Municipal Council yesterday ordered government bodies concerned to enforce the law after

At least 24 people died during a stampede at an overcrowded church gathering in eastern Nigeria, the Red Cross said on Sunday.
Nineteen women were among the dead at the stampede in the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Uke, Anambra st

Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio's election as pope has broken Europe's centuries-old grip on the papacy, opening the doors on a new age of simplicity and humility for the Roman Catholic Church, mired in intrigue and